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From: aloise@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Jim Aloise)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.eastern
Subject: Re: Love vrs Hate in Buddhist meditation
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Date: 19 Mar 90 20:53:26 GMT
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In article <14677@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> jamess@ttidcc.TTI.COM (Jim Schoonover) writes:
>What I see in his statement is a recognition of the nature of all
>of the pairs-of-opposites.  Neither element of a pair can exist
>without the other.  Furthermore, clinging to one is no better than
>(or different than) clinging to the other.
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>I am also reminded of something once said by Nisargadatta Maharaj
>(not a Buddhist).  I don't have the exact quote, but it was in
>effect: penetrate any one of the pairs-of-opposites and you have
>dissolved them all.

Is it just the particular emphasis on the pairs-of-opposites of 
Being and Non-Being that differentiate the various Eastern religions 
and philosophies?